Homemade Energy Bars

We have found in sportvicious.com a recipe for bars that are the most natural to take in training sessions and long outings, or to compete in bike marathon, ultratrails, stage tests, etc. It is as easy as taking the ingredients that we have at home, if one is missing or we do not like it, nothing happens.

Ingredients: For one part (1/2) nuts:
Walnuts - Hazelnuts - Pine nuts - Almonds - Macadamia nuts - Coquitos from Brazil
For the other (1/2) dehydrated fruit:
- Raisins - Dried apricots - Dried figs - Dates - Other dried fruits such as plums or blueberries.

We soak the dried fruit for a few minutes to hydrate it and then make the bar consistent.
We chop in the mortar or much better in a crusher but without the nuts being powdered and then we add the dried fruit cut into pieces. It will be a fairly consistent paste, if we want to finish gluing it we add a little honey.

In a parchment paper we distribute a little of the mixture and we give it an elongated shape, leaving space around it and then cut the paper and wrap it well.
The bars can be made the day before the competition / training, they will be kept in the fridge for 48 hours.

I recommend you make more quantity and freeze them. They are delicious!
If someone has digestive problems or allergies, it is better to avoid nuts and eat dried apricots, dates, etc. directly.

Bars properties:
They are rich in minerals such as  magnesium, calcium,  potassium, selenium, phosphorus, zinc and iron that will go fabulous to avoid losing minerals and avoid the dreaded ramps. They provide us with group B vitamins, provitamin A and E as well as important fatty acids, proteins and carbohydrates.
Raisins are very "alkalinizing", they reduce acidosis (lowering the pH of the blood) that occurs in organic fluids.